I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but really, when was the last time you saw Windows bluescreen?
I don't hate Windows at all - it earns me a lot of money, but I do keep an error log to record machine problems (and we've set all our XP computers to bluescreen rather than reboot).
With nine Windows machines mostly working on video or multimedia, we're averaging bluescreens on those twice weekly.
We have one Mac and three Linux machines, (not counting the laptops which dual boot), and the only recorded problems in the last three years for any of those computers are two power supplies failing.
What I'd like to see is a computer which has a main general-purpose CPU, and a bunch of separate special-purpose engines to handle physics, graphics, sound etc. I'd put them all on a single chip with memory and interface controllers and enough cache so they could all work effectively.
If I had to give it a name, I think I'd call it the "Cell" processor.
The cavemen who have replaced us won't be our problem to deal with.
Yeah, don't bother labelling it at all. Any descendants this era has will have to been radiation-hardened just to have survived Condoleezza Rice's presidency.
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I work for the division of GE that builds the locomotives.
For the past few years I've been part of the teams that've assembled and customised the Dash 9s you've built for the Pilbara iron ore mines. Hey, can you ask your guys to stop cutting cable ties on the bias? Installing or troubleshooting comms stuff on those things is like putting your hand in a shredder...
Much like the vaporized alcohol that's beginning to show up in some yuppie-fied bars as-of-late that you simply inhale and get blitzed for about an hour.
It's not a recent thing, though the yuppies may only recently be catching on. Back in the late '80s in the mining towns of Wetstern Australia, we had a drink called a Vapour Lock.
It was a shot glass of Sambucca which was lit, allowed to burn for about 10 seconds, then extinguished with the palm of your hand or buttocks of your girlfriend. Once the flame was out, you'd insert a straw carefully into the glass and suck up the contents in one large slurp.
Inevitably you'd also inhale the alcohol fumes generated by the burning Sambucca and get a head rush that'd last for the next ten minutes. Every so often someone would pass out seconds after their Vapour Lock to be promptly painted, shaved or teabagged. Good times...
there is an argument that the new MS Office UI will be so good/effecient/fantabulous that it will be worth training people for.
Having seen it, I don't think so. There often has to be a compromise in UI design between efficiency for experienced users and discoverability for beginners, and in Office 12 Microsoft has aimed for the latter. That makes sense from their point of view - they believe their office suite is more powerful (has more options) than their competitors, so they are trying to make that power accessible to new users.
The cost though, is that the new UI is less efficient for those who are already competent, and I suspect power users will dislike Office 12.
I'd say that fiddling with bits in my home directory is pretty damaging, and that's the kind of virus we're talking about here.
It would be, but that's NOT the kind of virus this was. It only modified executables which had been installed by drag-and-drop. At worst, you might have to re-install the infected apps.
Something may well do so one day. This wasn't it though. This article was nothing more than hype about a three month old worm that failed to infect more than a few machines and doing little damage once it did. The worm used as an example had nothing to do with the architecture change purported to be trhe reason for the exploit. The whole thing was a puff-piece of self promotion by Tom Ferris, nothing more.
If you want to hear about damage done in *ix, ask someone about sendmail or NFS exploits, or httpd, or telnet, or xdmcp.)
I'm old enough to remember them. I'll start to be concerned about my Linux installs when there's an actual exploit that's happened less than a decade ago.
I'm not even a Mac user and I still call FUD on this one. TFA was so slim on detail it was impossible to work out what had actually happened, and after searching for real info it turns out the virus, Leap.A, needs a root password to do any damage. Better article here: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/04/30/apple.secur ity.ap/index.html
Try a new full featured distribution (The kind you could expect a non-tech to use) on old hardware, and it is as slow as XP.
Nice try at astroturfing, but eLive for example, is a full-featured distro that looks good, is easy to use and is fast on older hardware. If you're unable to find a distro that'll do the job for you, its because of your own incomptetence, not a lack of choice.
Warning: Programmer attempting to re-invent the wheel. There's a function that does the exact same thing on CPAN. Sometimes it actually works.
ERROR: Unable to create life
It was NOT unfair to mod him down, and if there weren't so many MShills with mod points to spare he'd be modded into oblivion. This was supposed to be a discussion about how Microsoft was planning to maintain its monopoly position and continue screwing its customers for the next deccade or two.
It wasn't about Microsoft fighting Linux, it was about Microsoft using its wealth and monopoly power to revive the old familiar format lock-ins, incompatible protocols, and embrace, extend and extinguish to stop computer users from having any choice.
He's hijacked the discussion and turned it into a whine about ONE of Microsoft's competitors. That's degenerated into the usual pissing contest with the shills lined up on one side and the fanbois on the other.
It could have been an interesting discusssion about a topic which will have consequences to all of us over many more years. It's not now, thanks to him, which is why he should be modded -1 Troll and banned.
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So, for a urban family of three, their total household income would be $3139 ($327*3.2*3)...so a $150 computer would be ~5% of their total annual household income.
In addition, China has a much steeper poverty-to-wealth gradient than most western countries. In 2002, there were more than 50 million households having an annual average income of 75,000 yuan (US$9,068) or more.
John Howard is unaware that the London Bombers were all British citizens and would have been eligible for identity cards had Britain been using them.
Now be fair. The Australian government has asked all suicide bombers to place their identity cards safely away from the blast area before they trigger their bombs.
Anyway, identity cards are never any use in reducing crime or terrorism. The biggest problem for police is linking crimes to perpetrators rather than identifying individuals, and terrorists usually move across borders using tourist visas (like the 11 September bombers) and have legitimate identification cards (like the Madrid bombers) or very good forgeries.
Identity papers and cards are mostly useful to create an instant universal crime for police to detain people with. "Sorry, your papers/cards are not in order. Can you please accompany us to the station."
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I don't hate Windows at all - it earns me a lot of money, but I do keep an error log to record machine problems (and we've set all our XP computers to bluescreen rather than reboot).
With nine Windows machines mostly working on video or multimedia, we're averaging bluescreens on those twice weekly.
We have one Mac and three Linux machines, (not counting the laptops which dual boot), and the only recorded problems in the last three years for any of those computers are two power supplies failing.
Failing that, you could just install the Debian distro of it from here: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd
That sounds painful. "My eyes...the goggles do nothing!"
What I'd like to see is a computer which has a main general-purpose CPU, and a bunch of separate special-purpose engines to handle physics, graphics, sound etc. I'd put them all on a single chip with memory and interface controllers and enough cache so they could all work effectively.
If I had to give it a name, I think I'd call it the "Cell" processor.
Yeah, don't bother labelling it at all. Any descendants this era has will have to been radiation-hardened just to have survived Condoleezza Rice's presidency.
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For the past few years I've been part of the teams that've assembled and customised the Dash 9s you've built for the Pilbara iron ore mines. Hey, can you ask your guys to stop cutting cable ties on the bias? Installing or troubleshooting comms stuff on those things is like putting your hand in a shredder...
It's not a recent thing, though the yuppies may only recently be catching on. Back in the late '80s in the mining towns of Wetstern Australia, we had a drink called a Vapour Lock.
It was a shot glass of Sambucca which was lit, allowed to burn for about 10 seconds, then extinguished with the palm of your hand or buttocks of your girlfriend. Once the flame was out, you'd insert a straw carefully into the glass and suck up the contents in one large slurp.
Inevitably you'd also inhale the alcohol fumes generated by the burning Sambucca and get a head rush that'd last for the next ten minutes. Every so often someone would pass out seconds after their Vapour Lock to be promptly painted, shaved or teabagged. Good times...
Having seen it, I don't think so. There often has to be a compromise in UI design between efficiency for experienced users and discoverability for beginners, and in Office 12 Microsoft has aimed for the latter. That makes sense from their point of view - they believe their office suite is more powerful (has more options) than their competitors, so they are trying to make that power accessible to new users.
The cost though, is that the new UI is less efficient for those who are already competent, and I suspect power users will dislike Office 12.
No, you left your webcam on. You should get a better chair, btw.
I learned on SunOS and still have a "ps -aux | grep blah" reflex...
This is a better shot by the Japanese team; Squid
It would be, but that's NOT the kind of virus this was. It only modified executables which had been installed by drag-and-drop. At worst, you might have to re-install the infected apps.
Details: http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02/17/leapafollo w/index.php
Something will rip through OSX.
Something may well do so one day. This wasn't it though. This article was nothing more than hype about a three month old worm that failed to infect more than a few machines and doing little damage once it did. The worm used as an example had nothing to do with the architecture change purported to be trhe reason for the exploit. The whole thing was a puff-piece of self promotion by Tom Ferris, nothing more.
If you want to hear about damage done in *ix, ask someone about sendmail or NFS exploits, or httpd, or telnet, or xdmcp.)
I'm old enough to remember them. I'll start to be concerned about my Linux installs when there's an actual exploit that's happened less than a decade ago.
I'm not even a Mac user and I still call FUD on this one. TFA was so slim on detail it was impossible to work out what had actually happened, and after searching for real info it turns out the virus, Leap.A, needs a root password to do any damage. Better article here: http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/04/30/apple.secur ity.ap/index.html
Nice try at astroturfing, but eLive for example, is a full-featured distro that looks good, is easy to use and is fast on older hardware. If you're unable to find a distro that'll do the job for you, its because of your own incomptetence, not a lack of choice.
Yeah. They did better than the MCSE, but they run out of momentum too quickly.
Yeah, but unfortunately I hired a MCSE and it's turning out to be tougher than I thought training him.
Let's see...
$ ./line_noise.pl
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It was NOT unfair to mod him down, and if there weren't so many MShills with mod points to spare he'd be modded into oblivion. This was supposed to be a discussion about how Microsoft was planning to maintain its monopoly position and continue screwing its customers for the next deccade or two.
It wasn't about Microsoft fighting Linux, it was about Microsoft using its wealth and monopoly power to revive the old familiar format lock-ins, incompatible protocols, and embrace, extend and extinguish to stop computer users from having any choice.
He's hijacked the discussion and turned it into a whine about ONE of Microsoft's competitors. That's degenerated into the usual pissing contest with the shills lined up on one side and the fanbois on the other.
It could have been an interesting discusssion about a topic which will have consequences to all of us over many more years. It's not now, thanks to him, which is why he should be modded -1 Troll and banned. --
Completely aside from the flamebait aspect of this statement, you have it arse about. As logical construct, it should go:
retardation = Belief in god.
Try not to confuse cause and effect.
In addition, China has a much steeper poverty-to-wealth gradient than most western countries. In 2002, there were more than 50 million households having an annual average income of 75,000 yuan (US$9,068) or more.
Now be fair. The Australian government has asked all suicide bombers to place their identity cards safely away from the blast area before they trigger their bombs.
Anyway, identity cards are never any use in reducing crime or terrorism. The biggest problem for police is linking crimes to perpetrators rather than identifying individuals, and terrorists usually move across borders using tourist visas (like the 11 September bombers) and have legitimate identification cards (like the Madrid bombers) or very good forgeries.
Identity papers and cards are mostly useful to create an instant universal crime for police to detain people with. "Sorry, your papers/cards are not in order. Can you please accompany us to the station."
If you had Googled, you would have hit this: Bloodless Surgery